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Library strategy service objectives | Stock Management Policy | Our strategies, policies and terms | Libraries | Essex Library Service

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    Everyone’s Library Service 2022-2026

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    Purpose of this document

    Legislative framework

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    Key principles of stock management

    Policy on censoring stock

    Stock allocation policy

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    Stock selection policy for adult stock

    Stock selection policy for children's stock

    Stock selection policy: ordering and reservations

    Accessibility and alternative formats

    Staff responsibilities and training

    Stock editing

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    Policies for special collections

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Library service aims and objectives

 

Everyone’s Library Service 2022-2026.

Everyone's Library Service is about improving and promoting the opportunities the Library Service offers and placing it at the heart of the community.

Over the next four years, we will be working on 22 commitments across three main areas:

1. Library Service and literacy
2. Communications and infrastructure
3. Supporting our communities and levelling up

To support this plan, we will be:

  • Making best use of budgets
  • Exploring ways we can work together with other organisations with similar aims
  • Engaging with our users and the wider community to develop the services we offer